Artificial Harbour – Located in this small village, Port Winston, with its Phoenix caissons and pontoons, allows you to imagine the incredible device put in place a few days after the landing in order to supply the troops during the months following D Day.

While waiting for the liberation of the Havre and Cherbourg Ports, enormous concrete caissons were constructed in England. After being towed, the wharfs were assembled in order to form piers that defined the artificial harbor, connecting the ground by floating roadways. During 100 days of operation, the port unloaded: 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles and 4 million tons of material.

The sand of Omaha Beach will allow you to walk in the steps of the American soldiers who sacrificed their lives at the heart of the attack of the V Corps made up of the 29th division of infantry “blue & grey” as well as the first infantry division, more often known under the name of “big red one”.

This cliff-framed beach was the most unfavourable of the five landing beaches for a landing. The first companies are decimated and the human losses are extreme. This beach will bear the name of Bloody Omaha.

This intact battlefield, left after the attack of the rangers, will transport you to the heart of the combat delivered by the first wave of the 2nd battalion of US rangers under the orders of Colonel RUDDER. These German fortifications threatened both Utah Beach and Omaha Beach.

Air raids and naval shelling have reduced this terrain to a lunar landscape.

This medieval city is situated in the heart of an immense tidal bay. The abbey, known as a great site for pilgrimage, is one of the most fabulous realizations of the Middle Ages. These walls hold a thousand years of history within them.

Mont St Michel is registered in UNESCO’s World Heritage since 1979. Come and discover this wonder of the western world. An architectural masterpiece and an unforgettable visit.

Artificial Harbour – Located in this small village, Port Winston, with its Phoenix caissons and pontoons, allows you to imagine the incredible device put in place a few days after the landing in order to supply the troops during the months following D Day.

While waiting for the liberation of the Havre and Cherbourg Ports, enormous concrete caissons were constructed in England. After being towed, the wharfs were assembled in order to form piers that defined the artificial harbor, connecting the ground by floating roadways. During 100 days of operation, the port unloaded: 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles and 4 million tons of material.

Liberated by No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando on June 7th, this nice fishing port marks the limit between the British sector and the American sector.

Port-en-Bessin had been chosen by the Allies to become the main port for fuel deliveries to Normandy until Cherbourg would be liberated. Codenamed PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transport of Oil), the ‘minor system’ became operational two weeks after D-Day and kept working until the ‘major system’ was put in place in Cherbourg in September of 1944.